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Saturday, January 10, 2015

Do you watch reality TV shows?

Congratulations to "Nancy W." the winner in Monica's giveaway. Thank you to all who participated!

Do you watch reality TV shows? I don’t, but I was on one!
Sort of. It wasn’t a competition show like we see now, and producers
acknowledged that it wasn’t really reality
by calling it a “docudrama.” You see, I’ve been in this amazing bunco group for
over 15 years now. Back in 2007, we attended regional semifinals in the World
Championship of Bunco (yes, it was a real thing), and producers noticed us and
invited us to attend the final championship in Las Vegas as part of the
Lifetime network’s show Let the Good
Times Roll. Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up. We played in the Vegas
tournament the year before, but we weren’t part of the show.

The experience was so much fun! The game I love in a city I
love with girls that I adore. We gambled, got tattoos, took in a racy show, and
competed in the tournament. We went home exhausted but happy, and closer than
ever.

When the show aired, we were shocked to see that we’d been
portrayed as a group of catty individuals who didn’t seem to like one another
very much. Footage was taken out of context, manipulated, or in some cases,
fabricated completely to make it seem like the group fell apart the longer we
were there. I guess the truth—that friends went on a trip together and had a
great time—wasn’t nearly as interesting as what they came up with!

When I decided to write The Confection Connection, I used my brief experience with reality TV as the
basis for my characters’ previous relationship. In this story, two former
rivals find themselves competing for a job in the real world and end up thrown
into a pretend romance because of a misunderstanding. I love the idea of two
competitors being forced to keep up appearances for the sake of TV cameras,
then slowly finding that their fake feelings have become real.

Monica Tillery has been a social worker and a massage
therapist, but is now living her dream as a romance novelist. She loves nothing more than to get lost in a
beautiful love story, holding her breath as the hero and heroine fight their
way through obstacles to get to their happily ever after. Monica lives in Texas with her own real-life
romance hero, her husband of over a dozen years, and two wonderful sons. When she’s not reading and writing romance,
Monica loves playing bunco and bingo, hanging out with friends, and wasting
time online. She loves hearing from and
connecting with readers. Follow her on
Facebook (where you’re always likely to find her!) at www.facebook.com/monicatilleryauthor,
on Twitter @monicatillery, or visit her website www.monicatillery.com.

THE CONFECTION CONNECTION

After appearing on a popular reality cooking show, Carly Piper’s newly
opened bakery is landing her in debt. Making the cakes for the celebrity
wedding of the year might be the answer to all her troubles.

Problem is, her rival from the show, Michael Welch, is also pitching his
bakery to the celebrity couple. When a misunderstanding leads the quirky bride
to think they’re a couple, she wants to hire them both.

Stuck traveling together to keep up appearances, the pair finds themselves
cozying up to the idea of making their fake relationship real. But a
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity leaves these two wondering whether they have the
right recipe for success after all. Can Michael and Carly create something
lasting or is their love a half-baked proposal?

Giveaway:I’d love to get this book into your hands! Just comment about reality
TV—what you love or what you hate about it, and I’ll send a free ebook to one
winner.

Giveaway ends 11:59pm EST Jan. 11th. Please supply your email in the post. You may use spaces or full text for security. (ex. jsmith at gmail dot com) If you do not wish to supply your email, or have trouble posting, please email maureen@JustContemporaryRomance.com with a subject title of JCR GIVEAWAY to be entered in the current giveaway.

6 comments:

I enjoy some of the reality shows like Dancing With The Stars, Project Runway, So You Think You Can Dance, Survivor, and Amazing Race... The dancing shows I like seeing all of their hard work show some amazing routines... just something about watching how people react in certain situations or imagining what you would do make these shows interesting!

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